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Protest transforms long quiescent Syrian city
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"Dissent and defiance in Homa, its residents say, have become knitted into the city's fabric, signaling to the government that however ferocious the repression, it will face a resilient opposition for the foreseeable future."

International Herald Tribune, August 18, 2011; pages 1-5.
Very Long Baseline Interferometry, VLBI
The technique of linking together several radio telescopes spaced by hundreds and even thousands of miles to achieve very high resolution observations of distant objects; such as, quasars.
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